Explorer navigation links and agent economy endpoints return 404

[JONASXZB]

Summary

The live RustChain explorer exposes several primary navigation/data paths that currently return 404s, and the raw-IP explorer URL used by the public block-explorer bug-hunt bounty fails normal browser TLS validation.

This report intentionally does not claim the miner-table loading bug as new because similar reports already exist (#5614 / #6211). The new findings here are the broken anchors navigation, missing agent economy endpoints, and raw-IP TLS problem.

URLs

• https://50.28.86.131/explorer/
• https://rustchain.org/explorer/
• https://rustchain.org/anchors
• https://rustchain.org/agent/stats
• https://rustchain.org/agent/jobs

Steps to reproduce

1. Open https://50.28.86.131/explorer/ in Chromium.
2. Open https://rustchain.org/explorer/.
3. Click the Ergo Anchors link in the header or footer.
4. Open DevTools / network log while the explorer loads.

Expected

• The published raw-IP explorer URL should load cleanly or redirect to a hostname with a matching certificate.
• Ergo Anchors should point to a deployed anchors page or be hidden until the route exists.
• Agent Economy cards should either call deployed endpoints or avoid fetching missing routes.

Actual

1. Chromium blocks the raw-IP bounty URL with:

net::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID at https://50.28.86.131/explorer/

2. The Ergo Anchors link points to https://rustchain.org/anchors, which returns:

404 Not Found

3. The explorer attempts to fetch Agent Economy data from missing endpoints:

GET https://rustchain.org/agent/stats -> 404
GET https://rustchain.org/agent/jobs -> 404

The browser console logs those 404s, and the Agent Economy cards stay as placeholders such as -- RTC, -- jobs, and -- RTC fees.

Evidence

I captured screenshots and a fuller bug-hunt report in this PR for the block explorer bounty:

• docs: add block explorer bug hunt report rustchain-bounties#12741

The report includes screenshots for:

• explorer page
• anchors 404 page
• health endpoint
• epoch endpoint

Browser / device

• Headless Chromium 148
• macOS
• Reproduced on 2026-06-01

Suggested fixes

• Point the public bug-hunt / explorer URL to https://rustchain.org/explorer/ or configure a certificate/redirect path that works for the raw IP.
• Update the Ergo Anchors link to the correct deployed path, or remove/hide it until the anchors page is deployed.
• Either deploy /agent/stats and /agent/jobs on the canonical domain, or update the explorer to call the correct Agent Economy endpoints and render a clear unavailable state when the endpoints are absent.

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[keon0711]

Implemented the application-route 404 fixes in PR #6733:

#6733

What changed:

• registered RIP-302 Agent Economy routes on the integrated node app, so /agent/stats and /agent/jobs are available to the explorer
• added /anchors -> /anchor/list redirect
• added a read-only /anchor/list fallback for deployments where the optional anchor module cannot import
• made empty anchor DBs return {count: 0, anchors: []} instead of failing

Validation:

• git diff --check
• uv run --no-project --with pytest --with flask --with requests --with cryptography --with pynacl --with psutil python -m pytest node/tests/test_ergo_anchor_routes.py node/tests/test_explorer_api_routes.py tests/test_agent_jobs_query_validation.py -q -> 34 passed
• manual probe: /agent/stats 200, /agent/jobs?status=open&limit=1 200, /anchors 302, /anchor/list 200

Note: the raw-IP TLS certificate mismatch remains deployment/certificate configuration, not an application route patch.